Packaging recycling collection

In Denmark the amount of plastic packaging waste collected for recycling amounted in 2001 to 3.9 kg per inhabitant or 8.6 kg per household, compared with the potential amount, equivalent to 28.1 kg per inhabitant or 62.0 kg per household. 

The waste plastics utilized at the SPR plant are the household waste plastics specified by the Containers Packaging Recycling Law and marked as recyclable on the each of the products. The waste plastics are discharged at curbside by residents once per week, and collected, sorted, compacted in bale form by the local government, which then snpplies the SPR plant. 

A company engaged commerdally in the manufacture, import or sale of a product or packaging must ensure that end-of-life products or packaging are collected and reused or recycled. 

Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers A network for the collection, reprocessing, and reuse of foam packaging. http / / www.epspackaging.org... 

Producers of board try to manufacture board for foodstuff packaging with other, less mineral oil-contaminated RCP grades. Major sources of mineral oil in paper for recycling are offset coldset inks preferably used in newspapers and which contain typically 20-30% mineral oil as solvent [12]. By appropriate sorting of the RCP, the theoretical possibility exists to remove newspapers from collected household paper mixtures, so-called household collections, so that a mixed RCP grade without newspaper is generated especially for board production. 

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